You can't be jealous of me. You don't have to live at the sufferance of the same person who murdered your parents. You don't have to stay angry because if you don't, there's a bottomless well of fear...
When we fall that first time, we’re not really inlove with the girl. We’re in love with being in love. We’ve got no idea what she’s really about—or what she’s capable of. We’re in love with our idea o...
When there is a lot of power concentrated in one place, there are plenty of scraps to fight over. If the Court isn’t busy drinking poison, then it’s drinking bile.
When Tana was six, vampires were Muppets, endlessly counting, or cartoon villains in black cloaks with red polyester lining.
What they don’t realize is this: Yes, they frighten me, but I have always been scared, since the day I got here. I was raised by the man who murdered my parents, reared in a land of monsters. I live w...
What she did know was that normal was a lot more tempting when it was out of reach.
Well fine, then. I could send you out to win my favor. Possibly on a quest involving bringing a large mug of coffee and a doughnut. Or the wholesale slaughter of all my enemies. I haven't decided whic...
To Ben, love was the flame in which he wanted to be reborn. He wanted to be remade by it.
They say that nameless things change constantly -that names fix them in place like pins. But without a name, a thing isn't quite real either.
There is a pleasure in being with them. Taking what we wish, indulging in every terrible thought. There’s safety in being awful.
The row of dolls watched her impassively from the bookshelf, their tea party propriety almost certainly offended.
It's okay, he informs me. Your grandfather is teaching me how to play poker. If I know Grandad, that means what he'll really be teaching Sam is how to cheat.
It feels like the whole world has turned upside down. There aren’t any more rules.Hey, I say to Sam, because if the world’s gone crazy, then I guess I can do whatever I want. Guess what? I’m a worker....
If he thought I was bad, I would be worse. If he thought I was cruel, I would be horrifying.
I thought you needed to be tougher. But I've been thinking that protecting somebody by hurting them before someone else gets the chance isn't the kind of protecting that anybody wants.
I thought I was getting better at this. I thought I was starting to make peace with being in love with a girl who despises me, but I don't think I'm so okay with it after all. Somewhere along the line...
I think you impressed him with the sheer force of your stupidity.
I step out of my second life the same way I stepped out of my first, holding too few things and with great uncertainty about what will happen next.
I love you like in the storybooks. I love you like in the ballads. I love you like a lightning bolt. I've loved you since the third month you came and spoke with me. I loved that you made me want to l...
I hate you because your father loves you even though you're a human brat born to his unfaithful wife, while mine never cared for me, though I am a prince of Faerie. I hate you because Locke used you a...